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TOY. No. 449,748. Patented Apr. 7, 1891.

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EDIVARD P. ROBERTS, OF CLEVELAND, OI-I IO.

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. SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 449,748, dated April*7, 1891.

Application filed June 28, 1890. Serial No. 357,166. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDW'ARD P. ROBERTS, a citizen of the United States,residing at Cleveland, in the county of Ouyahoga and State of Ohio, haveinvented a certain new and useful Improvement in Toys, of which thefollowing is such a full, clear, and exact description as will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame.

My invention consists of a vessel containing a fluid, a body of lessspecific gravity than the fluid, and one or more bodies of greaterspecific gravity. The lighter body will rise to the top of the fluid andthe heavier bodies will sink to the bottom. The lighter body is providedwith means whereby the heavier body may be made to lodge thereon, thuscausing said lighter body to sink; and the game or trick consists of soshaking or turning the toy that the said heavier bodies will lodge uponsaid lighter body.

The best embodiment of my invention at present known to me is that shownin the drawings, in which Figure l is an elevation, and Fig. 2 avertical central section, of my invention.

Referring to the parts by letters, A represents a glass tube; B, aliquid contained therein, which may or may not completely fill saidtube; 0, a body made of Wood or other suitable material lighter than theliquid, which will rise to the top of the liquid. The body 0, as shown,is made in the figure of a man with weighted shoes D D for the purposeof keeping it upright, and with a hat E containing a cavity F. Theweights G G are preferably shot, but may be made of any suitablematerial.

Normally the arrangement is that shown in Fig. 1; but when the toy is soshaken that one or more of the shot lodge in the recess in the hat onthe figure the figure sinks and assumes the position shown in Fig. 2. Ofcourse any number of floating bodies and weights may be used, but Iprefer to use one floating body and two or three weights.

Although I have shown a solid floating on a liquid, I do not Wish to belimited to that particular construction, as obviously the toy might bemade andwould be operative with a balloon floating on a heavier gas, orsome similar construction.

which permit said heavier bodies to lodge upon said lighter body,substantially as and for the purpose specified.

2. In a toy, in combination, a vessel containing a fluid, a body thespecific gravity of which is less than that of the fluid, and one ormore bodies the specific gravity of which is greater than that of thefluid, said lighter body being provided with a recess into which saidheavier bodies are adapted to fall, substantially as and for the purposespecified.

3. In a toy, in combination, a vessel containing a liquid, a bodylighter than'said liquid and adapted to rise to the top thereof andprovided with a recess, and one or more bodies heavier than said liquid,which are normally at the bottom of the vessel, but which may be made tolodge in the recess of said lighter body, substantially as and for thepurpose specified.

4. In a toy, in combination, a tube A, containing a liquid B, a body 0,lighter than said liquid, said body being weighted at its lowerextremity with weights D D and having a receptacle E at its upperextremity, and one or more weights G G, adapted to lodge inthereceptacle in the body 0, substantially as and for the purposespecified.

EDIVARD P. ROBERTS.

Witnesses:

HERBERT B. JOHNSON, ALBERT H. BATES.

